beiggs smith



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

T. BRIGGS SMITH, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND ELMER TOWNSEND.

IMPROVEMENTS IN BOOTS AND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 63,568, dated April 2, 1867.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, T. BRIGGS SMITH, of the city of Boston and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Boot or Shoe; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full"and correct description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved shoe. Figs. 2, 3, and 4 show details.

This invention consists of a shoe or boot manufactured by the use of pegs formed from twisted polygonal metallic wire, said pegs being substituted for the wooden and thread pegs now in use.

The present invention stands in close relation to two others for which I have recently made application for Letters Patent. One of these is the formation of a peg or fastener from a polygonal twisted wire, and the other is a machine for twisting the wire to prepare it for the manufacture of the metallic peg. I now desire to secure, as a new article of manufacture, a boot or shoe made by the use of twisted metallic pegs.

The drawings represent such a shoe,'S indicating the sole, and p p, &c., the metallic pegs.

. The peg-wire being prepared by the machine before referred to, may be either out into pegs prior to being driven by hand or by suitable machinery, or may be used in the continuous piece in machines similar in principle to that which drives and cuts off pegs made of waxed thread, the mode of inserting the peg being no part of my present invention.

When driven by either mode the peg holds the pieces of leather together with a remarka ble tenacity, due to its screw form, and shoes formed with them are found to possess great durability.

What I claim, and desire to secure by Let ters Patent, as a new article of manufacture, is

A pegged boot or shoe in which pegs formed from a twisted polygonal-metallic wire, and of uniform size throughout their length, are substituted for the wooden or other pegs heretofore employed.

The above specification of my said invention signed and witnessed at Boston this 24th day of December, A. D. 1866.

T. BRIGGS SMITH.

Witnesses:

OHAs. F. STANsBURY, OHAUNOEY SMITH. 

